Spin-orbit driven ferromagnetism at half moiré filling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
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| author | Lin, Jiang-Xiazi Zhang, Ya-Hui Morissette, Erin Wang, Zhi Liu, Song Rhodes, Daniel Watanabe, K. Taniguchi, T. Hone, James Li, J. I. A. |
| author_facet | Lin, Jiang-Xiazi Zhang, Ya-Hui Morissette, Erin Wang, Zhi Liu, Song Rhodes, Daniel Watanabe, K. Taniguchi, T. Hone, James Li, J. I. A. |
| contents | Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provide two non-trivial threads to condensed matter physics. When these two strands of physics come together, a plethora of quantum phenomena with novel topological order have been predicted to emerge in the correlated SOC regime. In this work, we examine the combined influence of electron correlation and SOC on a 2-dimensional (2D) electronic system at the atomic interface between magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and a tungsten diselenide (\WSe) crystal. In such a structure, strong electron correlation within the moiré flatband stabilizes correlated insulating states at both quarter and half-filling, whereas SOC transforms these Mott-like insulators into ferromagnets, evidenced by robust anomalous Hall effect with hysteretic switching behavior. The coupling between spin and valley degrees of freedom is unambiguously demonstrated as the magnetic order is shown to be tunable with an in-plane magnetic field, or a perpendicular electric field. In addition, we examine the influence of SOC on the isospin order and stability of superconductivity. Our findings establish an efficient experimental knob to engineer topological properties of moiré bands in twisted bilayer graphene and related systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Spin-orbit driven ferromagnetism at half moiré filling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene Lin, Jiang-Xiazi Zhang, Ya-Hui Morissette, Erin Wang, Zhi Liu, Song Rhodes, Daniel Watanabe, K. Taniguchi, T. Hone, James Li, J. I. A. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provide two non-trivial threads to condensed matter physics. When these two strands of physics come together, a plethora of quantum phenomena with novel topological order have been predicted to emerge in the correlated SOC regime. In this work, we examine the combined influence of electron correlation and SOC on a 2-dimensional (2D) electronic system at the atomic interface between magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and a tungsten diselenide (\WSe) crystal. In such a structure, strong electron correlation within the moiré flatband stabilizes correlated insulating states at both quarter and half-filling, whereas SOC transforms these Mott-like insulators into ferromagnets, evidenced by robust anomalous Hall effect with hysteretic switching behavior. The coupling between spin and valley degrees of freedom is unambiguously demonstrated as the magnetic order is shown to be tunable with an in-plane magnetic field, or a perpendicular electric field. In addition, we examine the influence of SOC on the isospin order and stability of superconductivity. Our findings establish an efficient experimental knob to engineer topological properties of moiré bands in twisted bilayer graphene and related systems. |
| title | Spin-orbit driven ferromagnetism at half moiré filling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06566 |